Clark v. Rust Engineering Co.’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 12 later decisions — most recently June 2018
1 federal appellate · 2 district · 7 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Fort Halifax Packing Co. v. Coyne · Energy Reserves Group, Inc. v. Kansas Power & Light Co. · Tidal Oil Co. v. Flanagan · Tuttle v. Raymond · Myrick v. James
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 12 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“Legislature shall pass no ... law impairing the obligation of contracts....” Me. Const, art. I, § 11. The Maine Supreme Judicial Court has held that the Contract Clause of the Maine Constitution”
1 later decision quote this exact passage“The contract clause of the Maine Constitution tracks the language of the cognate federal provision.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.